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Wow! Roger played a spectacular quarterfinal match vs. Juan Martin Del Potro in Melbourne. It was billed as a dogfight and instead we got a ballet. How fitting that Federer played his 1000th match (winning his 2000th set in the process) on his own high falootin’ terms. It’s 2:15am where I am and we’re still [...]
Continue Reading →Roger Federer of Switzerland waves after defeating Mikhail Youzhny of Russia at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London June 27, 2011. REUTERS/Toby Melville (BRITAIN – Tags: SPORT TENNIS) Gosh, it must be fun to wake up as Roger Federer. The dudes’s just going about his business, playing tennis, helping kids in South Africa, doing push-ups [...]
Continue Reading →Wow, Roger’s been flying under the radar in NYC more than his twins have. First we had Myla and Charlene Federer posing with a fashion icon (above), now there’s a veritable family album of photos from Central Park. See them at CelebrityBabyScoop. Roger spoke about the twins’ playtime after his match yesterday: Q. Your girls [...]
Continue Reading →It was literally “blink and you miss it” in terms of Roger Federer’s straight set thumping of Dudi Sela yesterday. I think ESPN showed a total of 3 minutes of Roger time – 2 of those featured him signing autographs. Ah, well, I guess that’s the price we pay for having a bumper crop of [...]
Continue Reading →Roger Federer has joined Swiss teammates, Stanislas Wawrinka, Stephane Bohli, Marco Chiudinelli and fearless leader Severin Luthi in Bern, Switzerland for this weekend’s Zonal tie vs. Portugal. GTT reader, MajorFedFan, sent these photos over from Roger’s Davis Cup practice session: DavisCup.com has a “boy to man” Roger Federer gallery up, including photos like these:
Continue Reading →It’s so, Jo! Photo and quote via CNN I’ve been dreading this match-up since the draw came out, mostly because I really like Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and was disappointed that he wouldn’t have a chance to go farther than Roger Federer in the quarters. Uh. . .not feeling so bad for him now. He came back [...]
Continue Reading →GTT friend Long Live King Rog is a very lucky lady. Not only does she have Centre Court tickets for Monday’s unbelievable matches (alas, Roger will be on Court 1), she was also in the center of the action on Saturday, snapping photos of Roger Federer at play and at rest. The photographer sets the [...]
Continue Reading →Great Roger Federer interview by Hana Storm, Chris Evert, and Darren Cahill via ESPN. Fun to see a GOAT interview a GOAT! Forward the timeline to 5:35 for the goods!
Continue Reading →Roger Federer of Switzerland (R) and Pete Sampras of the U.S. (L) smile together on the court as they play against Andre Agassi of the U.S. and Rafael Nadal of Spain during their doubles exhibition doubles in the Hit for Haiti fund raiser event at the Indian Wells WTA and ATP tennis tournament in Indian [...]
Continue Reading →Ahh, now the grass season has really started: Via Roger’s facebook: “Today I had a nice & easy hit on the grass..first of the year….loved it!” Lovely, but. . .he really just starting hitting on grass? And it was “nice & easy”? Sounds like 1. he’s still nursing an injury and/or 2. he really was [...]
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